Ric Benson

Senior Pas­tor

Ric Ben­son

Ric has been Senior Pas­tor of Ken­more Baptist Church since 1989 and has led the church through major trans­ition from being a mid-​​sized single-​​pastor, con­ser­vat­ive, local com­munity church, to a large, multi-​​staff con­tem­por­ary church. He is mar­ried to Anne, and has two chil­dren, Robyn and David, both mar­ried and com­mit­ted Chris­ti­ans.
Ric is cur­rently National Dir­ector of Church Dynam­ics — the church con­sultancy arm of Cam­pus Cru­sade for Christ. He is also a Bible Col­lege lec­turer, con­fer­ence speaker, trainer-​​educator, coun­sel­lor and con­sult­ant to many organ­isa­tions, hav­ing min­istered to over 200 dif­fer­ent churches and most denom­in­a­tions over the last 20 years.

A keen musi­cian in brass and per­cus­sion, and sports-​​person with a pas­sion for dis­tance run­ning, he also has a great love of the Aus­tralian out­doors, with a keen interest in four-​​wheel driving.

Ric came to faith at 15 years of age through the Mor­well Sal­va­tion Army in Gipps­land, Vic­toria, and served in that church until 1979 when he and Anne, both in their early thirties, left their school teach­ing pro­fes­sion to join Cam­pus Cru­sade for Christ, as staff work­ers, and then later added to their respons­ib­il­it­ies pas­toral over­sight of a local church.

He has a God-​​given pas­sion and great drive to see Ken­more Baptist Church become a com­munity of God’s people, com­mit­ted to glor­i­fy­ing Him by mak­ing dis­ciples who will cel­eb­rate the life of God, cul­tiv­ate per­sonal growth in Christ, care about one another in Christ, and com­mu­nic­ate Christ to the world. He has com­mit­ted the church to assist and resource other churches so that together they might sig­ni­fic­antly add to the King­dom of God.